Donors in the Spotlight
Alan Wilson, chairman, president, and CEO of spice manufacturing giant McCormick & Co., remembers how much he wanted to attend the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. That was the inspiration that prompted Wilson and his wife, Wendy, to contribute $75,000 to fund an endowed scholarship for undergraduates in UT’s College of Business Administration. ...more...
University of Tennessee alumni from Crowe Horwath LLP, one of the largest public accounting and consulting firms in the U.S., recently established the Crowe Horwath Accounting Excellence Endowment. ...more...
After earning his Executive MBA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 2008 at the age of 64, Bill F. Breeding Jr., former mayor of Johnson City, TN, felt compelled to give back to the program. ...more...
UT Alumnus John Compton, CEO of PepsiCo Americas Foods, has made a contribution to the college that will enhance state-of-the-art technology in the new James A. Haslam II Business Building. ...more...
Prominent Knoxville entrepreneur and businessman Doug Horne gifted $1million to UT’s College of Business Administration for technology and faculty support. ...more...
Prominent East Tennessee businessman Will Pugh recently was honored with the naming of the Will J. Pugh Classroom in the College of Business Administration’s new James A. Haslam II Business Building. Pugh founded Pugh & Company, P.C. in 1969, one of the area’s largest and most successful accounting firms. ...more...
UT MBA alumnus, John Boll, joins UT’s College of Business Administration’s Advisory Council to the Dean. Boll is president of G.A. Richards Group and lives in Ada, Michigan. ...more...
UT College of Business Administration alum Paul Castagna received the college’s prestigious 2008 Distinguished Alumnus Award. Recipients are extraordinary business executives who personify leadership and who are role models for future generations. ...more...
The College of Business Administration at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has named its new, state-of-the-art business building after Jim Haslam, founder and chairman of the board of Pilot Travel Centers LLC and chairman of the board and president of Pilot Corp. ...more...
East Tennessee natives and UT graduates Barrett and Betsy Kirkland Simonis established the Barrett and Betsy Simonis Endowed Accounting Scholarship in UT’s College of Business Administration to be awarded annually to a deserving undergraduate or graduate student majoring in accounting. ...more...
Knoxville-native Mike West and his wife, Tiffiny, have made a $1 million contribution to the University of Tennessee College of Business Administration to support technology in the college's new classroom building, opening late 2008. ...more...
Dixon Hughes PLLC — the largest CPA firm in the Southeast —gifted UT’s College of Business Administration with $350,000. In honor of this gift, the college is recognizing the firm by creating the Dixon Hughes Master of Accountancy Classroom in the college's new, state-of-the-art classroom building. …more…
Randal Boyds’ UT campaign gift encourages student entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur himself having founded Radio Systems Corp., Boyd and his wife, Jenny, have given $1 million to establish the Randal D. Boyd Venture Fund for Student Entrepreneurs Endowment, which will provide support for the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center in the College of Business Administration. …more…
Ray Myatt’s UT campaign gift offers broad support for college. Myatt and his wife, Joan, have given a $1 million-plus deferred gift to support the College of Business Administration's Ray and Joan Myatt Endowment. The endowment's earnings will be used by the college to provide broad-based support for purposes relating to the mission, operation, and function of the college. … more …
The Stokely family, through the William B. Stokely, Jr. Foundation, building on an extensive history of support for UT, has endowed the deanship of the College of Business Administration. This is the first such endowed dean's chair on the UT Knoxville campus.… more …
The gift from Russell Johnston Jr. and his wife, Florence Fair Johnston, will benefit the College of Business Administration. His gift is, in part, a memorial to Al Keally, former head of the Department of Management, who was one of his faculty advisers in the 1950s. … more …
A. Dean and Ann Skadberg have made their dedication to the University of Tennessee a lifelong commitment, and a new $1 million gift to the university will contribute to their legacy across campus. Their gift will benefit three different programs, including the creation of the A. Dean and Ann Skadberg Global Initiatives Endowment in the College of Business Administration. … more …
The Talbotts have given $1.1 million to help establish two endowments within the College of Business Administration. The Robert & Jennifer Talbott Endowment for Innovation and Entrepreneurship will provide support for the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center. The Robert & Jennifer Talbott Scholarship Endowment is directed toward graduates from Austin East, Fulton, West and Bearden who are studying business … more …